Waiting for Obasanjo’s apology, By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu Yusuf

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The students, nonetheless, traced the root causes of the protests to the government’s squandering of billions of US dollars on the 1977 World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture ; ECOWAS Games; World Scout Jamboree; International Trade Fairs; massive importation of luxurious commodities; huge inflation of contracts; widespread corruption in high places; massive repatriation of profits by multinational companies, amongst others.

Obasanjo, as president, butchered people in Odi, Bayelsa State in November 1999, for protesting against environment degradation and demanding the control of their natural resources. His administration also massacred people in Zaki Biam over the killing of nineteen soldiers. The Abacha administration slaughtered protesters for demanding the de-annulment and actualisation of the 12 June, 1993 Presidential Election. It also killed some Ogoni people for protesting against Shell’s environmental degradation of their land, water and air, with crude oil and gas.

However, Obasanjo is yet to apologise for the suppression of Ali-Must-Go protest. Colonel Ahmadu Ali, the federal commissioner for Education at the time, and whose name became the metaphor for the protests, stated in thenewspapers of 29 January, 2014, that he had: “always sympathised with them ”, adding that he did all he could to discourage the protests by directly engaging the NUNS’ leadership.

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